Something my dear friend Kelly and I used to joke about all the time (before she moved away to Maryland in summer 2003) is how we met. In the 7th grade, I was a psycho kid. I was loud, rambunctious, outgoing, and downright strange. We had PE together, but we didn't really talk. Rather, she didn't talk to anybody, and I hadn't talked to her yet. We were also in different, well, levels of ability. She walked her laps, while I always came blasting into first. (Again, loud and rambunctious.) So, one day, while I was skipping on the numbers, waiting for the bell to ring so we could go, I noticed her sitting on the bench, reading. I walked right up to her and said "Are you shorter than me? Cuz nobody's shorter than me." "Um, I think I am." She stood, and indeed, she was shorter- one of 2 people I knew who were my age and shorter than I. We immediately hit it off and became joined at the hip for years. Strange meeting, eh?